The 113th Engineer Battalion at Fort Drum in the Philippines on 13 April 1945

U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph, Gift of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, from the collection of the National WWII Museum
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"113th Eng Bn pumped 3200 gallons of oil and gasoline into Fort Drum to blow up Japs [Japanese] inside." 13 April 1945

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04/13/1945
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Items from the service of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, consisting of photographs of the 161st Signal Photographic Company Combat Unit #10 which served on Espiritu Santos, Guadalcanal, New Britain, New Guinea, Noemfor, Leyte, Samar and Luzon.
Geography: 
Manila
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14.617
Longitude: 
120.967
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Forts & fortifications--Philippines